> this is really strange. following a reboot, things seem okay again,
> but then it starts up and goes to the point where everything is
> unusable. this with (k)ubuntu 12.04.
>
> not accusing TDE -- i try to keep current on all upgrades, so some
> other "fix" might be to blame. just thought there might be a changed
> default or something that i needed to reconfigure.

You'd better do a complete reinstall and purge your .trinity folder. I had a 
simillar thing on debian squeeze 2 (?) years ago. I never found out what 
caused the "remapping". The only cure was a vomplete reistallation (and 
double checking that no KDE4 packages got installed in the first place - but 
that's not imortant any more, at least on wheezy).

Nik